Tag: 2012 Toronto International Film Festival

I went to more film festivals this year than I ever had before. I went to Sundance in January, SXSW in March, and TIFF and Fantastic Fest this month. It’s exhausting, but it’s fun. I see it as a nice …

One of the many films to premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival was Peter Webber’s (Girl with a Pearl Earring) historical drama Emperor. The film takes place during the days following the Japanese surrender at the end of World …

The winners of the 37th Toronto International Film Festival were announced earlier today with David O. Russell‘s Silver Linings Playbook taking home the festival’s People’s Choice Award and Martin McDonagh‘s Seven Psychopaths being recognized with the Midnight Madness Award. For the …

Later today, I will be on a plane home. I have spent the last ten days at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, and given a reminder on how film festivals are exhausting and a total blast. I’ve gotten a …

Even though his films are most easily classified as comedies, you rarely feel good coming out of project by writer/director Noah Baumbach. That’s not a bad thing as his caustic wit and insightful observations about terrible, self-obsessed people have lead …

Javier Ruiz Caldera‘s Ghost Graduation mashes-up The Sixth Sense, Heart and Souls, and The Breakfast Club, and does so with a big smile on its face. Happily aware of the clichés of ghost films, Ghost Graduation has plenty of fun …

There’s a difference between “old-school” and “out-of-touch”, and Brian De Palma‘s Passion disappointingly falls into the latter. In an attempt to dig into his old bag of tricks when making a sexual thriller, Passion starts out promising, but then slowly …

Hellbenders teaches a valuable lesson: even with a neat premise and a strong cast of a character actors, a film can get real old, real fast. Writer-director JT Petty wants to coast on the hook of a bunch of hellbound, …

Ryûhei Kitamura‘s No One Lives is trying so hard to be cool, it hurts. It is a complete and utter wreck of a screenplay that sounds like it was written by an idiotic 16-year-old boy. The acting is abysmal, and …

Lee Daniels‘ The Paperboy technically has a plot. It’s an idiotic, rambling plot that has no level of cohesion or momentum whatsoever, but it’s a story that chronologically follows from “A” to “B”. Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy has characters. They’re …

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